Translate and localize your app

1. Open Play Console and go to Translation service page (Grow users > Store presence > Translation service).
2. At the top of the page, click Add translations, and select Add your own translation text on the drop-down menu.
   • Note: If you’ve already added translations before, you’ll see Manage translations and Manage your own translation text on the drop-down menu.
3. Under “Add or remove languages,” select the languages you want to add to the list. 
4. Click Apply.
5. Save your changes.

If you're adding your own translations, you can do so in the following languages:

• Afrikaans – af
• Albanian – sq
• Amharic – am
• Arabic – ar
• Armenian – hy-AM
• Azerbaijani – az-AZ
• Bangla – bn-BD
• Basque – eu-ES
• Belarusian – be
• Bulgarian – bg
• Burmese – my-MM
• Catalan – ca
• Chinese (Hong Kong) – zh-HK
• Chinese (Simplified) – zh-CN
• Chinese (Traditional) – zh-TW
• Croatian – hr
• Czech – cs-CZ
• Danish – da-DK
• Dutch – nl-NL
• English – en-IN
• English – en-SG
• English – en-ZA
• English (Australia) – en-AU
• English (Canada) – en-CA
• English (United Kingdom) – en-GB
• English (United States) – en-US
• Estonian – et
• Filipino – fil
• Finnish – fi-FI
• French (Canada) – fr-CA
• French (France) – fr-FR
• Galician – gl-ES
• Georgian – ka-GE
• German – de-DE
• Greek – el-GR
• Gujarati – gu
• Hebrew – iw-IL
• Hindi – hi-IN
• Hungarian – hu-HU
• Icelandic – is-IS
• Indonesian – id
• Italian – it-IT
• Japanese – ja-JP
• Kannada – kn-IN
• Kazakh – kk
• Khmer – km-KH
• Korean – ko-KR
• Kyrgyz – ky-KG
• Lao – lo-LA
• Latvian – lv
• Lithuanian – lt
• Macedonian – mk-MK
• Malay – ms
• Malay (Malaysia) – ms-MY
• Malayalam – ml-IN
• Marathi – mr-IN
• Mongolian – mn-MN
• Nepali – ne-NP
• Norwegian – no-NO
• Persian – fa
• Persian – fa-AE
• Persian – fa-AF
• Persian – fa-IR
• Polish – pl-PL
• Portuguese (Brazil) – pt-BR
• Portuguese (Portugal) – pt-PT
• Punjabi – pa
• Romanian – ro
• Romansh – rm
• Russian – ru-RU
• Serbian – sr
• Sinhala – si-LK
• Slovak – sk
• Slovenian – sl
• Spanish (Latin America) – es-419
• Spanish (Spain) – es-ES
• Spanish (United States) – es-US
• Swahili – sw
• Swedish – sv-SE
• Tamil – ta-IN
• Telugu – te-IN
• Thai – th
• Turkish – tr-TR
• Ukrainian – uk
• Urdu – ur
• Vietnamese – vi
• Zulu – zu

Purchase translations

Using our paid human translation service, you can order high-quality translations for your app strings, store listing, and in-app products from a professional third-party vendor. Ordering takes minutes, costs as little as USD 0.07 per word, and translations are completed within seven days.

Notes:

• You'll work directly with the vendor to manage translations and address any support issues.
• Translations aren't available for all source and target language combinations.

To purchase translations through Play Console:

1. Open Play Console and go to the Translation service page (Grow users > Store presence > Translation service).
2. Click Create translations.
3. Choose Paid human translation as your translation type.
4. In the "Select Languages" section: 
   • Specify the source language used in your original text.
   • Select your target languages for translation. 
   • When you’re finished selecting your languages, click Next.
5. In the "Select what to translate" section, select the items you want to translate:
   • Store listing: Provide the title, short description, and full description of your app as shown to users on Google Play.
   • App strings: Add text from your app as an XML or CSV file.
   • In-app products: Provide the title and description of your in-app products.
   • Additional information: Add screenshots or other documentation as a GIF, JPEG, PNG, or ZIP file. Adding a screenshot gives linguists context on how the text is displayed in your app.
   • Reuse translated strings from previous orders: Check the box to reuse strings that have already been translated to save money. You’ll only be charged for any new translations, and you’ll see the total price before placing your order.
   • When you’re finished selecting what you want to translate, click Review order.
     
     Notes: 
   • As you make your selections, the estimated price will update near the top right of the page. You can click View details for a breakdown of the estimate, including the languages, price per word, and total. 
   • You can click View other providers for a list of other translation providers and their prices.
      
6. In the "Review and pay" section: 
   • Review your translation order summary and remove any items you don’t want. 
   • Note your expected completion date.
   • Enter a voucher code if you have one.
7. Click Confirm and pay to complete your order. You’ll receive a payment confirmation email, and you’ll receive another email when your translations are complete.

Apply translations

After your translations are completed, here's how to apply your translations:

1. Open Play Console and go to the Translation service page (Grow users > Store presence > Translation service).
2. In the table, select the row for the language you want to apply. 
3. Click Download to save your translation file locally.
4. Next to the language you want to apply, click Apply.

Once you've added translations for your app's strings, you can upload the translated APK file to Google Play. If a user's language preference matches the translation languages you've added, they'll see the translated version.

Using our free machine translation service, you can order instant, high-quality machine translations for your app strings, store listing, and in-app products. Using machine translations is a great way to quickly add high-quality translations to better serve your app's international users at no cost.

 The following languages are available (we're working on adding more languages in the future):

• Arabic – ar
• French (France) – fr-FR
• German – de-DE
• Indonesian – id
• Italian – it-IT
• Japanese – ja-JP
• Portuguese (Brazil) – pt-BR
• Spanish (Latin America) – es-419
• Spanish (Spain) – es-ES
• Thai – th

Important: As these are machine translations, they are not reviewed or approved by humans.

To add free machine translations in Play Console:

1. Open Play Console and go to the Translation service page (Grow users > Store presence > Translation service).
2. Click Create translations.
3. Choose Free machine translation as your translation type.
4. In the "Select Languages" section: 
   • Specify the source language used in your original text.
   • Select your target languages for translation. 
   • When you’re finished selecting your languages, click Next.
5. In the "Select what to translate" section, select the items you want to translate:
   • Store listing: Provide the title, short description, and full description of your app as shown to users on Google Play.
   • App strings: Add text from your app as an XML or CSV file.
   • In-app products: Provide the title and description of your in-app products.
   • When you’re finished selecting what you want to translate, click View translations.
6. On the Translations services page, click Review and apply to review and apply your store listing text and in-app product translations. If you don't want to make any changes,, just click Apply without making any changes to the machine-translated text. You can also download your machine-translated strings from the Translation services page.

While it's best to use translations by native speakers, automated translations of your app's store listing will be available to Google Play users.

If users visit your app's store listing on Google Play in a language that you haven't translated, they can choose to view an automated translation of your app's page. Near the top of the page, there will be a notification that explains the translation has been done automatically, along with an option to view the store listing in its default language instead.

Note: Automated translations aren't available in Armenian, Raeto-romance, Tagalog, and Zulu.